01c. 1945 ADLife will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
02c. 1945 ADOne great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
04c. 1945 ADIn marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.Awe is what moves us forward.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
05c. 1945 ADThe psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
06c. 1945 ADThe LSD phenomenon, on the other hand, is—to me at least—more interesting. It is an intentionally achieved schizophrenia, with the expectation of a spontaneous remission—which, however, does not always follow. Yoga, too, is intentional schizophrenia: one breaks away from the world, plunging inward, and the ranges of vision experienced are in fact the same as those of a psychosis. But what, then, is the difference? What is the difference between a psychotic or LSD experience and a yogic, or a mystical? The plunges are all into the same deep inward sea; of that there can be no doubt. The symbolic figures encountered are in many instances identical (and I shall have something more to say about those in a moment). But there is an important difference. The difference—to put it sharply—is equivalent simply to that between a diver who can swim and one who cannot. The mystic, endowed with native talents for this sort of thing and following, stage by stage, the instruction of a master, enters the waters and finds he can swim; whereas the schizophrenic, unprepared, unguided, and ungifted, has fallen or has intentionally plunged, and is drowning.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
07c. 1945 ADFor the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state,Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
08c. 1945 ADOnly birth can conquer death—the birth , not of the old thing again, but of something new .Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
09c. 1945 ADA priest is a functionary of a social sort. The society worships certain deities in a certain way, and the priest becomes ordained as a functionary to carry out that ritual. The deity to whom he is devoted is a deity that was there before he came along. But the shaman's powers are symbolized in his own familiars, deities of his own personal experience. His authority comes out of a psychological experience, not a social ordination.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
10c. 1945 ADFollow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
11c. 1945 ADIf you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
12c. 1945 ADFollow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
13c. 1945 ADWe must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
14c. 1945 ADA hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
16c. 1945 ADWhen people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
17c. 1945 ADYour sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
18c. 1945 ADComputers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
19c. 1945 ADI think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
20c. 1945 ADIt is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
21c. 1945 ADGod is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
22c. 1945 ADOne way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
23c. 1945 ADI don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.Joseph Campbell / quote ↗
